KRISTEN WOLF is an award-winning author, creative and wondernaut living in the Rocky Mountains. She graduated from Georgetown University where she was nominated for Phi Beta Kappa, the academic honor society. After working several years as a reporter, she won a full scholarship to the prestigious creative writing program at Hollins College. 

Wolf's debut novel, THE WAY, was hailed by O, The OPRAH Magazine as “A Title to Pick Up Now!” Her second novel, ESCAPEMENT, won a 2018 IndieReader Discovery Award and has received early critical praise: “Wolf is a masterful storyteller who has created an enchanting novel... It will resonate with anyone who has ever felt passion.” —IndieReader

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As a child, Wolf grew up in a heavily forested suburb outside New York City. She credits her family with passing along an avid love and respect for nature—which explains the photos of her posing with an ever-widening array of animals living in their home including stray dogs, cats, guinea pigs, two raccoons, mice, a flock of quail, chickens and a squirrel who lived in her bedroom... needless to say, hers wasn't the average American upbringing.

When she was in middle school, Wolf's family purchased a piece of raw land in upstate New York. From then on, they lived like a regular Swiss Family Robinson every weekend and summer. They cleared land with tractors and chainsaws, built fences and a barn which they slept in for a period of time. Eventually they began harvesting crops and tending horses, cattle, chickens and pigs. This led to a very unique life for Wolf as she lived like a farmer on the weekends and a student in public school during the week. Growing up, life was a revolving door of diverse events from wrangling cattle for de-worming to waiting in line to see a Broadway show—from bottle feeding a premature foal to writing a thesis on Shakespeare. 

Maybe it was the disparity of her early life that later led Wolf to pursue a variety of interests including acting and directing in theater, assisting a horse veterinarian, journalism, flying lessons, rock climbing, scuba diving, teaching herself piano, mountain biking, competitive tennis and playing guitar in a rock band (so cliché but true!) and filmmaking (her documentary, CLUB Q, screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide.) 

Such a life gave Wolf exposure to a wide and eclectic range of people and disciplines, keen powers of observation, a passion for the natural world, unlimited curiosity, a flair for the dramatic and a strong independent streak—very helpful traits, it turns out, for a writer intent on looking beyond the known and resisting the norm.  

Not surprisingly, Wolf’s diverse interests and experiences emerge in her writing—which defies easy classification. The genres of her work range from a subversive brand of historical fiction to speculative fiction to fantasy to non-fiction essays. Subject matters range from impassioned composers of the Romantic era to renowned spiritual leaders to ephemeral beings in futuristic realms—all spiced with a hint of gender fluidity. 

Despite the diversity of genres, what all Kristen's works share in common is: an obsession with exploring beyond the known and accepted; a passion for logical, well-supported speculation; and characters existing outside the norm who possess a desire for belonging.